#!/usr/bin/perl -w # Copyright © 2001-2015 Jamie Zawinski . # # Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its # documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that # the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that # copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting # documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this # software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or # implied warranty. # # This program attempts to grab a single frame of video from the system's # video capture card, and then load it on to the root window using the # "xscreensaver-getimage-file" program. Various frame-grabbing programs # are known, and the first one found is used. # # The various xscreensaver hacks that manipulate images ("slidescreen", # "jigsaw", etc.) get the image to manipulate by running the # "xscreensaver-getimage" program. # # The various screen savers invoke "xscreensaver-getimage", which will in # turn invoke this program, depending on the value of the "grabVideoFrames" # setting in the ~/.xscreensaver file (or in the app-defaults file, usually # /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver). # # Created: 13-Apr-2001. require 5; #use diagnostics; # Fails on some MacOS 10.5 systems use strict; my $progname = $0; $progname =~ s@.*/@@g; my $version = q{ $Revision: 1.23 $ }; $version =~ s/^[^0-9]+([0-9.]+).*$/$1/; my $tmpdir = $ENV{TMPDIR} || "/tmp"; my $tmpfile = sprintf("%s/xssv.%08x.ppm", $tmpdir, rand(0xFFFFFFFF)); my $verbose = 0; # These are programs that can be used to grab a video frame. The first one # of these programs that exists on $PATH will be used, and the image file # is assumed to be written to $tmpfile (in some image format acceptable to # "xscreensaver-getimage-file", e.g., PPM or JPEG.) # # If you add other programs to this list, please let me know! # my @programs = ( "bttvgrab -d q -Q -l 1 -o ppm -f $tmpfile", # BTTV "qcam > $tmpfile", # Connectix Qcam "gqcam -t PPM -d $tmpfile", # GTK+ Qcam clone "v4lctl snap ppm full $tmpfile", # XawTV 3.94. "streamer -a -s 768x576 -o $tmpfile", # XawTV # the "-a" option ("mute audio") arrived with XawTV 3.76. "atitv snap $tmpfile", # ATI video capture card "grab -type ppm -format ntsc -source 1 " . # *BSD BT848 module "-settle 0.75 -output $tmpfile", "motioneye -j $tmpfile", # Sony Vaio MotionEye # (hardware jpeg encoder) "vidcat -b -f ppm -s 640x480 > $tmpfile 2>&-", # w3cam/ovcam "vidtomem -f $tmpfile 2>&- " . # Silicon Graphics "&& mv $tmpfile-00000.rgb $tmpfile", # Maybe this works? # "ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 -ss 00:00:01 -vframes 1 $tmpfile 2>&-", # "mplayer -really-quiet tv://0 " . # Maybe works with some cams? # "-ao null -vo pnm -frames 1 2>&- " . # "&& mv 00000001.ppm $tmpfile", ); sub error($) { my ($e) = @_; print STDERR "$progname: $e\n"; exit 1; } sub pick_grabber() { my @names = (); foreach my $cmd (@programs) { $_ = $cmd; my ($name) = m/^([^ ]+)/; push @names, "\"$name\""; print STDERR "$progname: looking for $name...\n" if ($verbose > 2); foreach my $dir (split (/:/, $ENV{PATH})) { print STDERR "$progname: checking $dir/$name\n" if ($verbose > 3); if (-x "$dir/$name") { return $cmd; } } } $names[$#names] = "or " . $names[$#names]; error ("none of: " . join (", ", @names) . " were found on \$PATH."); } sub grab_image() { my $cmd = pick_grabber(); unlink $tmpfile; print STDERR "$progname: executing \"$cmd\"\n" if ($verbose); system ($cmd); if (! -s $tmpfile) { unlink $tmpfile; error ("\"$cmd\" produced no data."); } print STDERR "$progname: wrote \"$tmpfile\"\n" if ($verbose); print STDOUT "$tmpfile\n"; } sub usage() { print STDERR "usage: $progname [--verbose] [--name | --stdout]\n"; exit 1; } sub main() { while ($_ = $ARGV[0]) { shift @ARGV; if (m/^--?verbose$/s) { $verbose++; } elsif (m/^-v+$/s) { $verbose += length($_)-1; } elsif (m/^--?name$/s) { } # ignored, for compatibility elsif (m/^-./) { usage; } else { usage; } } grab_image(); } main; exit 0;